Collocating lamp shades



5, 3- c. RICH-MAN 1,937,915

COLLOCA'T I NG LAN? 5 HADES Filed April 1, 1932 WITNESS: INVENTOR EharlesRlchman V i Patented Dec. 5, 1933 COLLOCATING LAMP SHADES Charles Richman, Philadelphia, Pa.

Application April 1, 1932. Serial No. 602,409

8 Claims.

This invention relates to method of and apparatus for collocating lamp shades, and has for an object to provide improved means for maintaining a plurality of lamp shades in spaced relation.

Lamp shades are made of materials, which under many conditions are liable to adhere one to another and to ruin the material of one or both of the lamp shades so adhering. The present invention is directed to separating the lamp shades a sufficient distance to prevent adhesion while at the same time, nesting the lamp shades to such an extent to economize space. The collocation of the lamp shades as disclosed in the present invention may be for the purpose of packaging for shipment, or the like, or for display of the shades in a merchandising establishment. These examples of use, however, are only given as examples and not as limitations.

The invention therefore comprises sleeves of semi-rigid material one attached to each lamp shade, and with means for holding the lamp shades in alignment so that the sleeves abut and thereby hold the several lamp shades spaced apart.

The drawing illustrates an embodiment of the invention and the views therein are as follows:

Figure 1 is a diametrical sectional view through the invention, two of the units being shown in diametrical sectional views through the conventional lamp shades, and

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the sleeve part of the invention. 1

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Lamp shades are of various types and made of various materials, but have in common a ring 10 adapted by contour and size, to fit the threaded part of an electric light socket. From this ring, arms 11 extend as a spidenand the ends of the arms support the shade 12. The arms 11 may be attached to the shade 12 in. any approved manner as by the wire 13, but the shade per se forms no part of the present invention. The invention comprises a sleeve 14 of some semi-rigid material as a section of a paper tube cut to: the desired length. The sleeve 14 is provided with a plurality of perforations 15. The number of these perfora-.

tions 15 depends upon the number of radial wires 11 employed .upon the lamp shade. Generally speaking, the minimum number is three, but the number may be increased or decreased as found desirable. As shown in the drawing, the number is indicated as four, this being for convenience of illustration only. The perforations 15 will also be of a size to fit loosely upon these wires 11.

Thesleeves 14 are provided with cuts 16 extending from a common edge and communicating with the perforations 15. These cuts 16 will preferably be at an inclination to the axis of the sleeve, and also will preferably be so inclined that when the wires 11 are entered in the outer ends of the cuts,

the rotation of the sleeve clockwise will move the sleeve to relatively move the wires into the perforations 15.

When seated in the perforations 15, by reason of the angular positions of the perforations 15 relative to the axis, the sleeve will maintain itself upon the wires in relatively fixed concentricity with the rings 10. The sleeves 14 will be stacked one upon another as indicated at Figure 1, having been applied each to its respective shade and the concentricity of the sleeves will be maintained by a pole or tube 1'7 which is inserted through the several axially alined rings 10. The combination of the pole 17 and the sleeves 14, therefore, maintain the several shades spaced apart as indicated at Figure 1. It is apparent that the pole 17 may be of any length desired, and that the number of shades which will be accommodated by the combination will be dependent wholly upon the length of the pole. When this collocation of shades is employed for shipping, the pole can, of course, be rigidly secured in the crate or box, whereupon, the shades will by reason of the sleeves 14, maintain themselves in such spaced relation as to not come in corn tact. For display purposesthe pole 17 may be mounted upon some convenient foot or other support which will maintain it in such vertical or other position as is desired.

Also for display purposes, if it is found desirable to expose to view a greater area of the shade surface, the sleeves 14 may be increased in their longitudinal extent over that suggested in the drawing.

Of course the apparatus for collocating lamp shades, herein illustrated, may be modified and changed in various Ways without departing from the invention herein set forth and hereinafter claimed.

The invention is hereby claimed as follows:

1. An apparatus for collocating lamp .shades having central sleeves and radial arms comprising rings having means for attaching to the arms, and a pole adapted to occupy a position concentric of the rings.

2. Means to collocate a number of lamp shades having central rings and arms radiating from the rings, comprising sleeves each having means for fixing to the radial arms and each sleeve each next adjacent shade.

5. Means to collocate a number of lamp shades having central rings and radial arms comprising a spacing device fixed to the arms of each shade adapted to abut a like device similarly fixed to each next adjacent shade.

6. Means to collocate a number of lamp shades comprising a circular spacing device fixed to each shade adapted to abut a like device similarly fixed to each next adjacent shade.

'7. Means to collocate a number of lamp shades comprising a circular spacing device removably fixed to each shade adapted to abut a like device similarly fixed to each next adjacent shade.

8. Means to collocate a number of lamp shades having central rings and radial arms comprising a circular spacing device removably fixed to the arms of each shade adapted to abut a like device similarly fixed to each next adjacent shade.

CHARLES RICHMAN. 

